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ADDRESS ■ 

OF THE 

Pennsylvania 
Society of Cincinnati 

to 

GEORGE WASHINGTON 

and 

His Answer 

1797. 



Brooklyn, JV. Y. 
Privately Prinfrrh 
1886. 



L3IZ 



IN EXCHANGE 

New York Public Uhrary 

JUN 27 1912 



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The Address of the Pennsylvania 
Society of the Cincinnati — and the 
Members from the other Societies 
present in Philadelphia 

To George Washington, Presi- 
dent of the United States 

Upon this auspicious day — 
and in contemplation of an ap - 
proaching public event, the most 
affecting, which can occur to us, 
either as men, as Citizens, or as 
your former fellow soldiers, we de- 
sire to congratulate, and address 
you. 



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As men we offer to you homage 
of a pure and heartfelt affection — As 
Citizens we express to you the 
gratitude, which results from a just 
sense of the highest obligation — 
and as fellow - soldiers we declare 
the respectful and inviolable attach- 
ment, which we feel to a beloved 
and venerated Chief 

This moment, in which America 
is to lose the services of her illus - 
trious Citizen, would indeed be in - 
consolable, did not the review of his 
wise, firm, and virtuous administra- 
tion, as Chief Magistrate, present a 
series of conduct, which it will be 
the pride and happiness of his sue - 
cessor to emulate and attain. 

With this consolatory reflection, 
we naturally associate the proud 



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sentiments that, in the instance of 
your dignified retirement from of- 
fice, our chief will exhibit to the 
world the rare and dignified spec - 
tacle that of^cial station and au - 
thority are not required to obtain 
and to continue the utmost distinc- 
tion among mankind, or to com - 
mand the highest degree of their 
admiration and applause. 

To that gracious Providence, 
whose goodness has heretofore 
preserved you a prime agent of 
human happiness, we prefer our fer- 
vent supplications for your present 
and future felicity. 

Signed on behalf of the Society 
Tho. Mifflin. 

Febr. 2 2d., I797- 



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To the Members of the Pensnylva - 
nia State Society of the Cincin - 
nati ; and the other State Societies 
of the Cincinnati at present at 
Phi lad' a. 

Your congratulations, and the 
expression of your attachment and 
approbation of my pubHc services, 
are received with gratitude and re- 
ciprocated with sincerity. Endear- 
ed to me by every consideration 
of pubHc and private worth, I 
shall carry into that retirement 
which you are pleased to mention 
in terms so flattering, an invaria- 
ble affection and esteem towards 
the faithful comrades of my milita- 
ry career ; and my best prayers 
will be offered for their present 
and future happiness. 



Go. Washington. 
United States, 2 2d. Feb. 1779. 



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